In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11, the US State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of the Banque Nationale d ' Haïti, the nation's only commercial bank and the government treasury.

" German Limited Company for Pest Control ") was founded by a consortium of German chemical companies including Degussa, and initially led by chemistry Nobel laureate Fritz Haber.

He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511, and in 1519, led a consortium of German and Italian businessmen that loaned Charles V 850, 000 florins ( about 95, 625 oz ( t ) of gold ) to procure his election as Holy Roman Emperor over Francis I of France.

" We have been mandated to lead a German consortium in this project ," a spokesman said.

In the end, only three qualified bidders remained: ABB ( Swedish manufacturer of the X 2000 train ), Siemens ( manufacturer of the German ICE ), and a consortium of Bombardier ( manufacturer of the LRC trains ) and Alstom ( manufacturer of the French TGV ).

The two-car trains with a top speed of 160 km / h were produced by a consortium of five German companies and Fiat Ferroviaria.

The price for the construction was at that time 270, 000 gold francs per kilometre and was contracted to the German Strousberg consortium.

On May 1868, the Romanian state concluded an agreement with another German consortium, known as the " Offenheim Consortium ", for the construction of several shorter railways in the region of Moldavia.

* IRIS-T — German lead consortium ( 2005 –)

In 2009, Raab was approached by the public broadcaster NDR, a member of the ARD broadcasting consortium, to jointly organise a national preselection in order to determine the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

The arches were made by an international consortium led by the German foundry H + H Metallform.

OSEK was founded in 1993 by a German automotive company consortium ( BMW, Robert Bosch GmbH, DaimlerChrysler, Opel, Siemens, and Volkswagen Group ) and the University of Karlsruhe.

The opening for the Genoese banking consortium was the state bankruptcy of Philip II in 1557, which threw the German banking houses into chaos and ended the reign of the Fuggers as Spanish financiers.

A variety of locations and designs were proposed, and the contract was awarded to Miller-Dywidag, a consortium composed of Scottish construction company Miller Construction, German engineering company Dywidag International, and financial partner the Bank of America.

The Airborne Multirole Solid State Active Array Radar ( AMSAR ) another European collaborative project, is produced by the British / French / German GTDAR (" GEC-Thomson-DASA Airborne Radar ") consortium.

WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD.

The university is member of TU9, a consortium of the nine leading German Institutes of Technology.

The consortium of institutions responsible for the VMC includes the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center and the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering at Technische Universität Braunschweig.

The project is a European collaborative project and is under development by the British / French / German GTDAR consortium.

The first lot was allocated to the German branch of Austrian company Strabag, while the second was won by a consortium of Kuwaiti company Mohamed Abdulmohsin al-Kharafi & Sons and UAE-based Admak General Contracting Company.

Today he still owns the hall in Hertfordshire through a trust which leases it to a German consortium.

A consortium of broadcasters and record companies led by Time Warner, Sony Television, Polygram Records and EMI Music, but notably excluding the German based Bertelsmann Music Group, saw their investment in VIVA as an antidote to the " vain posturing power of MTV Networks executives " according to Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The American Mafia representatives, led by actor Eddie Constantine, decide to leave England because of all the killings but Harold is determined to stay and go into business with a German consortium, saying that he will become a legitimate businessman.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.

The West German government, meanwhile, established itself provisionally in Bonn.

German gains were ultimately limited by Hitler diverting forces from the attack on Stalingrad itself and seeking to pursue a drive to the Caucasus oilfields simultaneously as opposed to subsequently as the original plan had envisaged.

There is the argument that the Heer ( the German army ) itself was not ready for blitzkrieg at the start of the war.

The Germans had not taken cavalry into consideration when fortifying their position which, combined with the " Warsaw " s swift assault, overran the German anti-tank guns and consolidated into an attack into the village itself, now supported by infantry and tanks.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica found itself upon the bookshelves of many educated European readers for throughout the late 17th century and early 18th century it was translated, for many years it was not thought compatible with the French and Dutcheze, into the French, Dutch and German languages as well as Latin.

German film industry has primarily been economically involved in Swedish films, but does not put itself in the artistic product.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the Reich, the Prussian leadership became supplanted by German leaders and Prussia itself played a lesser role.

By contrast, East Germany renounced ties to the Nazi past, styling itself the " anti-fascist rampart " and proclaiming itself the first socialist state on German soil.

George's influence manifested itself also in the development of the German Reformation as a whole.

In return for German and Austrian support, Italy committed itself to assisting Germany in the case of a French military attack.

The new successor house styled itself formally as House of Habsburg-Lorraine ( German: Habsburg-Lothringen ), although it was often referred to as simply the House of Habsburg.

Albanians fought against the Italians while, during Nazi German occupation, Balli Kombëtar allied itself with the Germans and clashed with Albanian communists, which continued their fight against Germans and Balli Kombëtar at the same time.

The name " hamster " is a loanword from the German, which itself derives from earlier Old High German hamustro.

He felt that colonies did not pay for themselves, that the German bureaucratic system would not work well in the easy-going tropics, and the diplomatic disputes over colonies would distract Germany from its central interest, Europe itself.

Though the Dienststelle Ribbentrop concerned itself with German foreign relations with every part of the world, a special emphasis was put on Anglo-German relations, as Ribbentrop knew that Hitler favoured an alliance with Britain.

The navy remained the same as that operated by the empire's predecessor organisation in the unification of Germany, the North German Federation, which itself in 1867 had inherited the navy of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Louis the German promptly rose in revolt, and the emperor redivided his realm again at Quierzy-sur-Oise, giving all of the young king of Bavaria's lands, save Bavaria itself, to Charles.

" However within this line of thought " The tension between anti-vanguardism and vanguardism has frequently resolved itself in two diametrically opposed ways: the first involved a drift towards the party ; the second saw a move towards the idea of complete proletarian spontaneity ... The first course is exemplified most clearly in Gramsci and Lukacs ... The second course is illustrated in the tendency, developing from the Dutch and German far-lefts, which inclined towards the complete eradication of the party form.

Maximilian Karl Emil " Max " Weber (; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself.